maverick

A litte helper tool that tries to make working with maven cozy and refreshing

enables you to write your pom.xml with less verbose syntax than xml. It's inspired by pug but kept simpler.

So that this:

modelVersion 4.0.0

groupId com.example
artifactId Example
version 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT

becomes this:

<project>
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>Example</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</project>

Usage

Put the executable maverick into a directory which is on your PATH. Then run maverick init to generate an initial pom.mav file which looks like this:

modelVersion 4.0.0

groupId com.example
artifactId Example
version 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT

dependencies
    com.example Test 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT

Then just run maverick which compiles the pom.mav file into the pom.xml and runs mvn clean install afterwards If you want to pass other arguments to maven then you can maverick like maverick <options> -- <mavenargs>. Everything after "--" will be passed to maven.

dependencies

As you can see above you can write the dependencies just seperated with a space (or alternatively with a colon). The syntax is like:

dependencies
    # seperated by space
    <groupId> <artifactId> <verion> <type|scope> <type|scope>
    # seperated by colon
    <groupId>:<artifactId>:<verion>:<type|scope>:<type|scope>
    # old fashioned
    dependency
        groupId <groupId>
        artifactId <artifactId>
        version <version>
        type <type>
        scope <scope>
        # exclusions are not supported yet in the other forms [WIP]
        # if you need exclusions use this form
        exclusions
            exclusion
                groupId <groupId>
                artifactId <artifactId>

Output

Also the output gets filtered for only necessary information:

Instead of this:

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] 
[INFO] ------------------------< com.example:Example >-------------------------
[INFO] Building Example 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-clean-plugin:2.5:clean (default-clean) @ Example ---
[INFO] Deleting [...]/maverick/examples/target
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.6:resources (default-resources) @ Example ---
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (UTF-8 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory [...]/maverick/examples/src/main/resources
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile (default-compile) @ Example ---
[INFO] No sources to compile
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.6:testResources (default-testResources) @ Example ---
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (UTF-8 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory [...]/maverick/examples/src/test/resources
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:testCompile (default-testCompile) @ Example ---
[INFO] No sources to compile
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.12.4:test (default-test) @ Example ---
[INFO] No tests to run.
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-jar-plugin:2.4:jar (default-jar) @ Example ---
[WARNING] JAR will be empty - no content was marked for inclusion!
[INFO] Building jar: [...]/maverick/examples/target/Example-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-install-plugin:2.4:install (default-install) @ Example ---
[INFO] Installing [...]/maverick/examples/target/Example-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar to [...]/.m2/repository/com/example/Example/0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/Example-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
[INFO] Installing [...]/maverick/examples/pom.xml to [...]/.m2/repository/com/example/Example/0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/Example-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.pom
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  1.606 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2020-04-07T09:00:10Z
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

you only get this:

⚠ Using platform encoding (UTF-8 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
⚠ Using platform encoding (UTF-8 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
⚠ JAR will be empty - no content was marked for inclusion!
 BUILD SUCCESS
 Total time:  6.637 s
 Finished at: 2020-04-07T08:59:50Z
[1/2] compile to pom.xml ➜  ✓ done 🞂 [2/2] run maven ➜  ✓ done 

Only warnings, errors and the final build information will be shown